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Tue, October 20, 2020 | 07:13
Editorial
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has infuriated South Korea and China again, this time by sending an offering to the Yasukuni Shrine for the first time since taking office ...
The country's unemployment situation is getting worse, increasingly being affected by the coronavirus pandemic. Statistics Korea announced last week that South Korea lost about 3...
Thoughts of the Times
Watching the opening debate between former U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden and his opponent was painful. Even more upsetting were, however, ...
Talking much about the countermeasures for the pandemic, some religious leaders point out the importance of living in brotherhood or frate...
China Watcher
Difficulty knocks on the door out of nowhere. Adversity comes in many forms. We all bound to face hardships from which it seems there is n...
Blogs
In the fall, the Jeongdong area of Seoul is one of the most beautiful places in the downtown area for a quick afternoon stroll. The whispe...
Still as wide as he is tall and with a flattop that would make Guile from Street Fighter proud, an emotional Chairman Kim appeared to cry ...
Once again Gimjang (the season for making kimchi) is upon us and the markets are bustling with people trying to buy the cabbages and other...
King Cheoljong is not remembered as much for his reign as he is for the politics surrounding his appointment and his death. His ascension ...
Columns
Tong Kim
While North Korea's nuclear arsenal is being advanced, South Korea struggles to keep the cohesion of its alliance with the United States, ...
The concept of “club governance” is on the rise. Governments are increasingly organizing “clubs” to identify joint positions and approache...
Maybe you remember this Trump gem from 2016: “I think (Hillary) was out there with classified information. She was giving it to anybody. A...
Jason Lim
The Korea Society's Annual Gala Dinner held Oct. 7 was the organization's premier event of the year, held to mark the U.S.-Korea relations...
I am an American. I am a Christian. I am a Democrat. I am voting for the Democratic Party candidates in the election this fall. My prayerf...
On October 6, U.S. President Donald Trump posted a tweet claiming that the common flu sometimes kills “over 100,000” Americans in a year. ...
Racial tensions in America are worse now than at any point in my lifetime. The country just seems to be tearing itself apart. The news is ...
In my previous column, I made the argument that the wholesale attack on the founding symbols and traditions of Western civilization is dri...
Donald Kirk
The pandemic assumes strange forms under strange conditions. No one knows who will be next to catch the bug. It's difficult to criticize t...
Park Moo-jong
Just six months are left until by-elections are held for mayors of the nation's two largest cities, Seoul and Busan, which are expected to...
Cartoons
Autumn distraction
Halloween surrogate
Tribune Service
In February 2017, I showed up for an interview with Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, who was visiting Philadelphia's Foreign Policy Research Instit...
As recently as 2008 the platform of the Republican Party mentioned climate change 13 times. The GOP acknowledged that the Earth's warming was caused by human activity, ...
President Donald Trump's disdain for science, especially when it comes to protecting Americans from COVID-19, is well known. But this week, his administration is taking...
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